On 10 January 2017 a new emergency plan was presented in a commission in Belgium's Parliament. The evacuation perimeter was conveniently halved to 10km to avoid an evacuation of Belgium's second and third cities in case of a meltdown. The plan has been called totally inadequate. NICK MEYNEN reports
… disaster knocked 2 to 10% from Japan's GDP, but when Doel goes into meltdown , the cost is estimated to be 200% of the GDP of Belgium . In such a scenario, GDP won't really mean much. Most of Flanders …